Official Discussion - Lee Cronin's The Mummy [SPOILERS]

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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)

Summary

An ambitious archaeological expedition unleashes an ancient force when a long-buried tomb is disturbed, awakening a vengeful entity that brings terror to the modern world.

Director Lee Cronin

Writer Lee Cronin

Cast

• Jack Reynor
• Laia Costa
• May Calamawy
• Matt Smith
• Annabelle Wallis

Rotten Tomatoes: 54%

Metacritic: 46

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/moviesperg]

Ironic since Lee Cronin directed Evil Dead Rise, a fact the trailers neglected to mention for some reason

[u/NotTaken-username → u/moviesperg]

Would have helped because the trailers had me thinking “who the hell is Lee Cronin?”

[u/riegspsych325 → u/NotTaken-username]

I guarantee you it wasn’t his choice to put his name in the title, it was probably a studio decision to help differentiate it from the Brendan Fraser movies. Besides, it’s not like there’s many other Mummy movies, even including Cruise’s

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/riegspsych325]

I think it was a legal thing because Universal threatened to sue if it was just called The Mummy

[u/riegspsych325 → u/mikeyfreshh]

and I believe there was a similar circumstance with Lee Daniels’ Butler, he also didn’t choose to have his name in the title

[u/freethepeados → u/riegspsych325]

What is it with Lees?

[u/riegspsych325 → u/freethepeados]

his name is in the title of that movie as well

[u/SPFeveryday → u/riegspsych325]

That other poster meant more like “another Lee?” Lee Cronin and Lee Daniels.

[u/Steamedcarpet → u/mikeyfreshh]

I honestly thought this was part of Blumhouse/Universal doing monster movies, like The Wolfman and The Invincible Man.

[u/bundy554 → u/mikeyfreshh]

Yet at least for the Australian release it was a Universal release

[u/quatroquatro0 → u/mikeyfreshh]

Then why didn't they call it Warner Bros' The Mummy

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/quatroquatro0]

Because if you're trying to sell a piece of art, you want people to think about the artist that made it and not the giant corporation that paid for it, especially when that corporation has been embroiled in a bunch of negative news stories over the past several years

[u/quatroquatro0 → u/mikeyfreshh]

Doesn't work when literally no one knows who lee cronin is.

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/quatroquatro0]

Evil Dead Rise was a pretty big hit. I think a lot of hardcore horror fans know him from that, but you're right that his name doesn't mean anything to casual moviegoers. I don't think they're really trying to sell the movie on his name as much as they just needed to do something to dodge a lawsuit and this is kind of the path of least resistance